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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage

Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage

June 16, 2009

The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organizations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in…

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No Rule of Law

June 15, 2009

Chinese Totalitarian State Human Rights in China documents the recent suppression of lawyers who represent clients denied human rights. The government of China has responded to this unwelcome phenomenon by…

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Netwar in the Amazon

June 14, 2009

Justified Turmoil As the governments of Peru, the United States, and Canada attempt to defeat the indigenous peoples of the Amazon with military violence, the media netwar takes on new…

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Indigenous Solidarity in Latin America

June 13, 2009

It is beautiful to see solidarity happen. Indigenous peoples throughout Latin America most of who have experienced similar exploitative endeavors by their national governments are supportive of the indigenous peoples’…

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Best Novel

June 13, 2009

Half of a Yellow Sun With the Shell settlement for complicity in murdering Nigerian human rights activists in the news this week, I thought that readers might enjoy getting to…

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Let the Work Begin

June 12, 2009

Restoring Community Decolonization is a spiritual battle for the restoration of community. Creating an authentic life requires consistency and a commitment to traditional ways of being. There is no easy…

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Reality in Advance

June 11, 2009

Some news stories leave one breathless, like this one about unregulated dioxin-tainted fish. Dioxin, the cancer-causing residue of the chemical industry, has long been the reason for Superfund cleanups and…

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Humanity Extinguished

June 10, 2009

As US oil corporations (with the eager assistance of criminalized governments) murder indigenous peoples in the Canadian Prairies, the Niger Delta, and the Amazon Basin, American consumers face a moral…

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Corporate Violence Continues

June 9, 2009

There has been no greater challenge to the life, territory, culture and very existence of Fourth World peoples than that presented by the greed and impunity of unregulated resource extracting…

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Remembering

June 9, 2009

FRONTLINE remembers Tiananmen. Do you remember Tlatelolco? How about Kent State?

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Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library

The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.

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